Clement Comer Clay

Clement Comer Clay (17 December 1789-6 September 1866) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-AL 1) from 4 March 1829 to 3 March 1835 (succeeding Gabriel Moore and preceding Reuben Chapman), Governor of Alabama from 21 November 1835 to 17 July 1837 (succeeding John Gayle and preceding Hugh McVay), and a US Senator from 19 June 1837 to 15 November 1841 (succeeding John McKinley and preceding Arthur P. Bagby).

Biography
Clement Comer Clay was born in Halifax County, Virginia in 1789, and the family later settled in Grainger County, Tennessee. In 1811, Clay became a lawyer in Huntsville, Alabama, and he served in the state legislature before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1829 to 1835 as a Jacksonian. Clay went on to serve as Governor from 1835 to 1837 and as a US Senator from 1837 to 1841, and he died in 1866.